- The Duchess of Sussex said she felt “unprotected by the institution” during her time as a working member of the royal family.
- In new court documents filed by Meghan Markle’s legal team for her court case against the Post on Sunday, the duchess appeared to criticize the Kensington Palace communications team for banning her from “defending” against the press.
- He added that Kensington Palace would respond “without comment” when approached with questions from the press, rather than asking Markle for an answer.
- Markle is taking legal action after the newspaper published excerpts from a letter she wrote to her father shortly after the royal wedding.
- Kensington Palace declined to comment when Insider contacted him.
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Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, said she felt “unprotected” from the media scrutiny she faced when she was a working member of the royal family.
In a new court document filed as part of her legal battle against the Post on Sunday, Meghan Markle’s lawyers appeared to criticize Kensington Palace, implying that they did nothing to help the Duchess during a time of “tremendous emotional distress.”
“The Claimant had become the subject of a large number of false and damaging articles in the UK tabloid media, specifically the Defendant, causing her great emotional distress and damage to her mental health,” said a legal spokesperson. of the duchess in the document. , obtained by Insider.
“Since her friends had never seen her in this state before, they were justly concerned about her well-being, specifically because she was pregnant, unprotected by the institution and prohibited from defending herself,” they added.
Markle is taking legal action against Mail the Sunday for misuse of private information, copyright infringement, and breach of the 2018 Data Protection Act after he released excerpts from a letter he wrote to his father. shortly after the royal wedding.
He received criticism for pursuing the lawsuit, as a friend already mentioned the letter in an anonymous interview with People Magazine before it was made public.
The tabloids have accused the duchess of “invading her own privacy,” but Markle denies knowing about her friend’s interview with People.
In the court document, Markle’s attorneys argue that she would have said this on record, however, her press team did not give her the opportunity to do so.
“The ‘no comment’ stance was adopted by the KP Communications Team without any discussion or approval by the Complainant, as is standard practice for actual communications,” said the Duchess’s spokesperson.
They went on to say that if Markle “had been asked or given the opportunity to participate, she would have asked the KP Communications Team to say in the record that she had not been involved in the People magazine article, since I hadn’t been. “
Kensington Palace declined to comment when Insider contacted him.
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